Posted on 02/13/2014 9:40:01 AM PST by Baynative
SALT LAKE CITY, February 12, 2014–Can Utah shut down the new NSA data center by turning off the water? A new bill introduced by state Rep. Marc Roberts seeks to do just that.
The legislation drafted by a transpartisan coalition organized by the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) called OffNow Coalition. The Utah Fourth Amendment Protection Act would expressly prohibit state material support, participation, and assistance to any federal agency that collects electronic date or metadata without a search warrant “that particularly desribes the person, place and thing to be searched or seized.”
“Without question, the mass surveillance and data collection by the Utah Data Center is a delicate and important matter,” Roberts said. “But for me, the language of the Fourth Amendment is clear. It simply protects us against unreasonable and unwarranted searches or seizures of our persons, private residencies and property, documents and information and personal and private belongings. This legislation preserves those rights to the people.”
(Excerpt) Read more at benswann.com ...
Eventually they run themselves down.
The nature of so-called progressivism is ultimate auto-destruction due to inherent flaws. Starting with flaws of the mind.
The article claims they use a estimated 1.7 millions gallons/day. They may have some onsite storage to outlast a broken water main, but not a shut off.
good.
The ones like this that use chilled water are open systems which require a steady supply of chilled water from an outside source.
They can operate a short time without it on the backup systems they are supposed to have. The backup systems are expensive and rarely rated for long term use.
Good for Utah. This datacenter brings a lot of money into the state so this is an encouraging move by politicians.
Roberts is not an anti America, left wing maggot.
He appears to fit right in with most of us on FR.
He had better be as clean as the driven snow in Utah’s great ski areas.
If not, NAS/FBI/IRS and Holder’s Thugs will be releasing everything Roberts, his family and wife has done since they were born.
Love it!
Basis alleged mass violations of the Fourth Amendment...
...the local Sheriff moves in mid-day on a weekday, rounds up all of the employees, cordons off the building as a crime scene under investigation, boots everybody else out...
...records are located and confiscated by the Sheriff as evidence...
...charges are ultimately filed, with many employees being charged as accessories, co-conspirators, etc...
Just a matter of HOW to orchestrate this, is all...
Republicans in Maryland are trying the same action.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3121338/posts
Lights Out for NSA? Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters
US News and World Report ^ | 2/10/2014 | Steven Nelson
The National Security Agency’s headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md., will go dark if a cohort of Maryland lawmakers has its way.
Eight Republicans in the 141-member Maryland House of Delegates introduced legislation Thursday that would deny the electronic spy agency “material support, participation or assistance in any form” from the state, its political subdivisions or companies with state contracts.
The bill would deprive NSA facilities water and electricity carried over public utilities, ban the use of NSA-derived evidence in state courts and prevent state universities from partnering with the NSA on research.
An extreme water ph adjustment will render the whole system useless in a month.
Umm, and just about EVERY elite democrat...
-—not exactly like a nukesub. They need external water, power, and fiber optic phone line access, all of which can be controlled by the State. Even drilling for water on their own property is still controlled by the state, particularly in the western states. And the state highway patrol could control access-—just to get bitchy about it.
of course!
Tells ya something, doesn’t it?
The piece evokes skepticism. How much federal funding does Utah get from the federal government for the many programs it participates in? Most folks in state assemblies are commies at least as much as those in Congress.
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They don’t want to kick out a federal agency. They just want to cut off its water supply. McCulloch v. Maryland doesn’t apply.
Utah just needs the water for something else. Irrigation maybe. They have a good case and can win in court.
Most of Utah is owned by the fedgov. Utah should demand that fedgov hand over the land to the state or they shut the water off. Once they get control of the land drilling starts and everyone in Utah gets a check like Sarah did in Alaska. Win for the people of Utah and the rest of us don’t get spied on.
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Nothing will stop the federal government from doing whatever they want anyway.
Sure, ok, I'm sure that will be persuasive in a federal court of law. Because Utah just randomly shuts off water to other facilities all the time. This is too cute by half, and is precisely the situation the court addressed nearly 200 years ago in McCulloch. There Maryland was simply trying to "tax out of state banks" - but as in this case, the actual motive was easy to figure out.
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